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Experimental Study of Open-Cell Cellular Structures with Elastic Filler Material

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Open-cell cellular structures have a high potential for use in automotive, railway, ship and aerospace industry as crash energy absorbers. This paper focuses on the influence of the second phase filler material as a way to further increase the capability of cellular material energy absorption. The behaviour of ductile (aluminium alloy) and brittle (polymer) cellular structures with regular topology with and without the pore filler (silicon rubber) under quasi-static and dynamic compressive loading conditions has been experimentally studied and evaluated. The base material properties of the aluminium alloy and the polymer were obtained with separate experimental testing. The use of second phase filler material resulted in significant changes in cellular material behaviour. It was observed that the pore filler material increases the capability of energy absorption and furthermore improves and stabilises the response of a brittle cellular structures.

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The financial support from the Croatian–Slovenian bilateral research project “Modelling and development of materials with open cellular structure” and the postdoctoral project “Computational modelling of cellular structures under multiaxial impact conditions” supported by the Slovenian Research Agency is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia

    M. Vesenjak & Z. Ren

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, R. Boškovića b.b., 21000, Split, Croatia

    L. Krstulović-Opara & Ž. Domazet

  3. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Malaysia, 81310 UTM, Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

    A. Öchsner

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This paper was presented during the Advanced Computational Engineering and Experimenting ACE-X 2007 Conference, Portugal, July 12–13, 2007.

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Vesenjak, M., Krstulović-Opara, L., Ren, Z. et al. Experimental Study of Open-Cell Cellular Structures with Elastic Filler Material. Exp Mech 49, 501–509 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-008-9183-8

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